Russia appears to have begun developing new supercomputing platforms specifically for AI, which is somewhat surprising given that Russia does not have the capacity to produce advanced semiconductors.
According to the Russian website CNews, this information comes from a government company called RosElectronics, which is using internal technology to develop a new computing platform called Basis.
Each core unit includes three servers, each containing 128 CPU cores and 2TB of memory. Details of the processor used have not yet been revealed. Whether it is a single slice (homogeneous) or multiple slices (slice).
Russia plans to use these core servers for graphics processing, storage, and virtual machines, in addition to building supercomputers that can be used in the military sector.
CNews also said that the proposed solution is scalable and can run hundreds of nodes simultaneously with thousands of virtual machines, and that Russia's high-speed, low-latency Angara network can connect all these nodes together seamlessly and easily.
The question is: where is the supercomputing platform made? It is known that the chips manufactured by Russian semiconductor factories are manufactured with a precision of up to 65 nanometers, so they cannot be relied upon to produce these new chips. Russia must solve this problem by obtaining chips from China.
Although the US Department of Commerce imposed several sanctions on China, especially TSMC, China exceeded expectations in this area. Due to the reliance on chips produced by the Chinese Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation, these chips can be easily supplied to Russia.
Finally, SMIC is said to be working on 5nm and 7nm chips.